Wayne Adams, Chairman, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
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Ann Agee, Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Sunil Ahluwalia, Product Line Manager, Intel Corporation
Sunil Ahluwalia is a Sr. Product Line Manager for Intel's 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. In addition, he chairs the Data Center committee for Ethernet Alliance. In his role at Intel, Ahluwalia is responsible for marketing Storage and Security technologies for the Data Center. He has over 14 years of management experience in the software and semiconductor industry during with he held various positions in strategic planning, product marketing, and product development. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, Ahluwalia served as Director, Professional Services for Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. There he lead the expansion of Trillium's services business and established an overseas development center in Bangalore, India. Ahluwalia received an MBA from University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. He also holds a bachelor of technology degree in computer science and engineering from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India.
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Tom Amrhein, Chief Information Officer, Forrester Construction
Tom Amrhein is the Chief Information Officer for Forrester Construction. He is responsible for managing all aspects of Forrester's Information Services, including strategy, governance, service management, software development, voice, and data communications. He has over 15 years of experience aligning business needs and technology solutions. He most recently served as Director of Technical Architecture for BearingPoint, where he developed and implemented world-wide technology standards for the new corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Amrhein was responsible for the creation of a new global network infrastructure for KPMG International. He has published numerous articles in the field.
Mr. Amrhein holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Florida.
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Akshay Anand, Technical Architect, BearingPoint Inc.
Akshay Anand is a Technical Architect in the Infrastructure Solutions practice of BearingPoint. His specific area of expertise is in Services Management and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). He has a proven record of documenting, assessing, planning and designing IT Service Management and ILM processes and solutions in a variety of industries, such as Investment Banking, Pharmaceutical and Telecommunications.He is also the lead architect for BearingPoint's Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution offering.
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Alan Atkinson, Vice President, Engineering, EMC Corporation
Alan has 21 years experience in storage related computing as both an end user and vendor. Alan began his career at AT&T; Bell Labs. In 1992, Alan joined Goldman Sachs where he founded the global storage infrastructure group. He joined StorageNetworks in January 2000. As SVP Engineering and Product Marketing, Alan saw StorageNetworks through a successful IPO. Alan left StorageNetworks in early 2002 to co-found WysDM Software. In 2008, EMC acquired WysDM Software. Alan is currently responsible for several product lines at EMC including Data Protection Advisor.
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Rich Avila, Director, Server Operations and Systems Support, California State University, East Bay
Rich Avila is Director of Server Operations and Systems Support at CSUEB. His career as a director also includes twenty plus years of planning and implementing shared technology infrastructures for banking, retail, telecommunication and manufacturing companies. Rich has built and maintained nationwide networks and merged and built numerous data center sites over his career.
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James W Baker, Research Manager, IDC
As research manager for IDC's Storage Software, James Baker focuses on replication and storage management software. He is responsible for in-depth analysis of these markets, including associated products and companies. He assists both vendors and users in assessing storage software technological innovation, acquisition and investment decisions, as well as tracking and forecasting worldwide markets.
With 30 plus years in the storage industry, Mr. Baker has extensive storage experience and knowledge. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Baker worked 11 years at EMC Corporation in product management roles for both the Engineering and Marketing organizations. He was responsible for product lifecycle management for several of EMC's most influential products, including SRDF, TimeFinder, AutoSwap, LDMF, and others. He is also a published author. He holds BS and MBA degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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Mary Baker, Senior Research Scientist, HP Labs
Mary Baker's research interests include distributed and mobile systems, digital preservation, and networks. Before joining HP Labs as a senior research scientist, she was on the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering faculties at Stanford University where her research group helped design and test the distributed protocol for the LOCKSS digital preservation system. She also led the MosquitoNet research project. Baker received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Terman Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, and an Okawa Foundation grant. She is a founding member of the editorial board for IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, was on the first technical advisory board for NTT DoCoMo's USA Labs, and is currently on the technical advisory board for Lockheed Martin's TSAT/TMOS next generation battlefield global communications system. She chaired the 2008 Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies.
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Christian Bandulet, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Christian Bandulet is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of the Sun Data Management Ambassador Group Board which is steering the storage engineering and product development teams at Sun Microsystems. He is also member of Sun's worldwide Storage Technical Field Advisory Board. With over 20 years' IT experience he worked as a soft- and hardware engineer in Germany and in the US. His expertise reaches from UNIX kernel development to database engineering. As an acknowledged industry expert Christian has delivered workshops and presentations at many international conferences. Christian has the reputation for taking complex issues and delivering them in a way that makes them easily understood. Christian has written many blueprints, articles and white papers about advanced storage technologies like object storage and grid storage. He's focused on large scale storage projects for key customers, competitive studies, research analysis of advanced technologies and monitoring of trends in the storage and server industry.
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Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Clodoaldo Barrera is a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technical Strategist for IBM System Storage. His responsibilities include development strategy for IBM's disk and tape subsystems, storage management software, and SAN and NAS solutions. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barrera was the development executive for IBM's serial storage product development, and for future storage systems development. He has also served for two years on the IBM Corporate Development Staff in Armonk, New York. Mr. Barrera is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association, and served as a Director and Secretary of the Board. He has also served as a board member of the Fibre Channel Association. Mr. Barrera is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.
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Clod Barrera, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Storage Systems
Clodoaldo Barrera is a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technical Strategist for IBM Systems Storage in San Jose California. His responsibilities include development strategy for IBM's disk and tape subsystems, storage management software, and SAN and NAS solutions. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barrera was the development executive for IBM's serial storage product development, and for future storage systems development.
Before joining IBM's Storage Division, Mr. Barrera was a programmer and a development manager in printer product development in San Jose, Tucson Arizona, and Boulder Colorado. He has also served for two years on the IBM Corporate Development Staff in Armonk, New York.
Mr. Barrera is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association, and served as a Director and Secretary of the Board. He has also served as a board member of the Fibre Channel Association.
Mr. Barrera is a graduate of Stanford University, and holds a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society and of the ACM.
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Rick Bauer, SNIA Technology & Education Director, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
Rick serves as Technology Director and Education Director for the SNIA. He is responsible for the management of all technical and educational initiatives of the association. Rick also manages SNIA's Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is part of an ever-expending global SNIA network of SNIA labs in Japan, China, and India. Rick is a member of many technical and marketing workgroups within the SNIA, and is a frequent presenter at SNIA and other technology events worldwide. He is one of the founding staff members of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Prior to his work at SNIA, Rick served as CIO for several organizations over a 16 year career in technology, involving education, data process, digital imaging, and systems integration. Rick served as founding chair of SNIA's End User Council while serving as CIO for The Hill School, one of America's leading educational institutions, named "the most wired school in America" by Yahoo's Internet Life magazine in 2002. Rick has master's degrees in business and technology management from the Wharton School of Business and the Graduate School of Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania, and has additional master's degrees from Harvard University and The University of Florida.
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Paul von Behren, Technical Director, Symantec
Paul von Behren is a member of the Standards/Open-source group in the CTO office at Symantec. His job responsibility includes storage management standards, particularly SMI-S. Paul is the Chair of SMI Governing Board and Implementation Committees, leads SMI-Lab, and is the co-chair of the SMI-S Core Technical Working Group. He is an SMI Distinguished Engineer and Leader. He is the primary author of the Multipath Management API sponsored by SNIA and now an ANSI standard. Outside of SNIA, Paul has been involved in SCSI, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI standards definitions. Prior to joining Symantec, Paul worked on storage utility and API development at Sun Microsystems and network software at StorageTek.
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Nir Ben-Zvi, Program Manager, Microsoft
Nir Ben-Zvi is a program manager in Microsoft Storage Solutions Division. For the last two years Nir and his team have been developing the Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure to enable organizations to manage their files based on "Business Value."
Nir has been working in Microsoft for 8 years and participated in all major Windows Server and client releases since Windows Server 2003. Nir has background in Networking, Security and Storage.
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Wendy Betts, Product Development Manager, IBM Corporation
Wendy Betts is a manager of Product Developers at IBM Corporation. Her responsibilities include managing product development efforts for the Novus Storage Optimization and Integration products as well as managing the customer facing projects. Prior to joining IBM, Wendy was an end user of storage products for over eight years. Wendy graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Operations Management Information Systems. She also attended Keller Graduate School of Management where she earned her MBA with an emphasis in Finance. She is an Industry Advisor to the SNIA End User Council Governing Board, prior to this she was Chair of the End User Council for two years as well as held several other leadership positions within the organization. Wendy spends her free time in trying to play golf and going to live theater.
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Anuraag Bhargava, Chief Information Officer, Electro-Motive Diesels
Anuraag Bhargava joined EMD in 2005, after 7 years with a premier consulting company servicing Fortune 50 accounts (A.T. Kearney). He brought considerable experience and knowledge to EMD, and changed the business role of IT to that of a strategic information systems organization.
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J. Brice Bible, Chief Information Officer, Ohio University
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David Black, Distinguished Engineer, EMC Corporation
Since joining EMC in 1998, David has been involved in a variety of strategic technology projects and standards efforts, including leading development and standardization of iSCSI and other IP Storage protocols in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). His current activities focus on storage and networking protocols, security, and standardization including leading industry standardization efforts for Fibre Channel security and development of a standard fixed content API for Centera and similar systems. Prior to EMC, David worked on operating system research and development at the Open Software Foundation, which later became The Open Group.
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Brad Blake, Director of IT, Boston Medical Center
Brad Blake has more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare, telecommunications and technology industries. As director of IT for Boston Medical Center (BMC), he manages the entire organization's IT and telephony infrastructure and is responsible for overall operations, new projects and initiatives, and driving technical strategy and direction for the hospital and its affiliates. In 2008, he was honored with multiple nominations for Executive of the Year as well as Project of the Year by the Information Security Executive Program Series. A veteran speaker at many IT industry conferences and events, Mr. Blake has most recently presented at the Gartner Data Center Conference, ArcSight User Conference, Information Security Awards Show and McAfee Executive Conference over the fall of 2008. Mr. Blake holds a bachelor's degree in IT Management from Trinity College.
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Daniel Budiansky, Enterprise Applications Technologist, Data Domain
Daniel has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry with a specific focus on storage and server technologies. Prior to joining Data Domain in June of 2006 as a Principal Systems Engineer, he served as Senior Infrastructure Architect for Perkins Coie, LLP. His tenure in the IT industry also includes positions with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Amitech Corporation. Daniel holds a B.A. degree in Anthropology from University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.
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Jason Buffington, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft - Storage Solutions
Jason Buffington has been working in the networking industry since 1989, with a majority of that time being focused on data protection. He is a Certified Business Continuity Planner as well as prior Microsoft MCSE-MCT. In 2005 was awarded Microsoft's MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Storage.
Jason has received high marks as a former speaker at nine previous SNW events (2002-2008). He has also spoken around the world at large events and been published in several periodicals, including Storage Networking World, StorageInc., Storage Management Solutions, Network World, CTR, DRJ, TechTarget/SearchStorage and Enterprise Storage.
With over 18 years of storage experience, Jason is currently the Senior Technical Product Manager for Storage Solutions at Microsoft. He has previously held posts at DoubleTake and Cheyenne/CA ARCserve and channel-partners prior to Microsoft.
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Dave Burhop, Chief Information Officer, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
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Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA NDMP and XAM SDK working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances.
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Eric Hibbard, CISSP, CISA, Chief Technology Officer, Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems
Eric Hibbard is the CTO Security and Privacy in Hitachi Data Systems where he is responsible for storage security strategy, identifying and defining new storage security architectures, and designing new storage networking infrastructures. Mr. Hibbard is a senior security professional with almost 30 years experience in information and communications technology, working for government, academia, and industry. Hibbard serves as the International Representative for the INCITS/CS1 Cyber Security, member of the SNIA Technical Council, Chair of the SNIA Security TWG and the Vice Chair of IEEE P1619. He is also involved with INCITS/T11, ISACA, ISSA, TCG, IEEE-USA CIPC, and the American Bar Association. Mr. Hibbard currently holds the (ISC)2 CISSP certification as well as the ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP concentration certifications. He also holds the ISACA CISA and the SNIA SCSE certifications. His educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science and a Certificate of Proficiency in Data Communications.
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Tom Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, Storage Software, IBM
Tom is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for IBM Storage Software. He spent over 11 years at Informix Software developing parallel database systems, joining IBM in 2001. Tom led all database kernel development at Informix, including the incorporation of object-relational database technology. He later led all development for the Informix flagship database server. Since joining IBM, his work has focused on file systems, applications in storage, and storage management software. His most recent focus is on archive systems and technology. Tom received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Mt. Vernon Nazarene University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Portland State University.
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Doug Conorich, Principal Security Analyst, IBM
Mr. Conorich is a Principal Security Analyst for IBM Internet Security System's Managed Security Services. In this capacity, he has responsibility for developing new security offerings, insuring that the current offerings are standardized globally, and all training of new members of the MSS team worldwide in how to do "Ethical Hacking" and service delivery. Mr. Conorich teaches people how to use the latest vulnerability testing tools to monitor Internet and Internet connections, develop vulnerability assessments, and suggesting security related improvements. Mr. Conorich was also actively engaged in the research of bugs and vulnerabilities in computer operating systems and Internet protocols and was involved in the development of customized alerts notifying clients of new potential risks to security. Mr. Conorich has over 35 years of experience with computer security holding a variety of management positions. He
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Chris Cummings, Senior Director, Data Protection Solutions, NetApp
Chris Cummings is senior director for Data Protection Solutions at NetApp. In this capacity, Mr. Cummings is responsible for solutions development and marketing for the company's disaster recovery, backup, archive, compliance and security solutions, and for the company's major initiative in storage efficiency. Prior to NetApp, Mr. Cummings served as vice president at Interwoven, an enterprise content management company, responsible for product management, marketing and business development. Mr. Cummings also served in leadership roles at Pandesic, an SAP-Intel joint venture delivering e-commerce software-as-a-service concern in e-commerce, and at Monitor Company, a management consultancy. Mr. Cummings holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.BA. from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.
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Roger Cummings, Technical Director, Symantec
As Technical Director in the Symantec CTO Office, Roger Cummings participates in the development of new technologies and advanced products, and represents Symantec in a number of industry bodies developing standards. He is a past member of the SNIA Technical Council, and a former Co-Chair of SNIA's Security Working Group. He is active in INCITS committees T10 & T11, and also participates in IEEE & IETF. He has as total of more than 30 years experience in the computer industry in the UK, Canada and the United States. He has published more than twenty articles in a variety of publications and authored two booklets in the SNIA Technical Tutorial Series - "Storage Network Security" and "Storage Network Management.
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Marty Czekalski, Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate
Marty Czekalski brings over twenty years of senior engineering management experience in advanced architecture development for Storage and IO subsystem design, ASIC, and Memory Systems. He is currently Sr. Staff Program Manager within Seagate's Enterprise Market Development Group.
Previous industry experience includes engineering management roles at Maxtor, Quantum and Digital Equipment Corporation. Additionally, at Digital Equipment Corp., he was a key member of the Storage Strategy Task Force and the Next Generation IO Task Force, setting the directions for storage and interface strategy.
Mr. Czekalski has participates in multiple interface standards committees and industry storage groups. He was a founding member of the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group during that lead to the development of Serial Attached SCSI. He currently serves as Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the SCSI Trade Association. Mr. Czekalski is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, active with the T10 committee and the Trusted Computing Group.
Mr. Czekalski earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
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David Dale, Director Industry Standards, NetApp
David Dale is Director of Industry Standards at NetApp where he is a technology spokesperson, represents NetApp in the storage industry, and drives NetApp's involvement in Industry Standards Associations. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he participates in the industry as a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum; vice-chair of the SNIA Data Management Forum; a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.
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Stephen Daniel, Technical Director, NetApp
Stephen Daniel has spent over 25 years working the design and implementation of highs performance commercial computing systems. During 8+ years at Network Appliance, Mr. Daniel has worked on storage issues related to database performance, features, service levels, and technologies. As a senior technologist in NetApp's networked storage business unit he works with customers, support, and engineering to ensure the superiority of NetApp's technology in enterprise datacenters. During 12 years at Data General Mr. Daniel worked on various portions of Data General's UNIX kernel with an emphasis on file system design. While at Data General he took on responsibility for database benchmarks (including TPC publications) and general responsibility for commercial systems performance. Mr. Daniel has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Duke University.
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Scott H Davis, Chief Data Center Architect, VMware
Scott Davis is the Chief Data Center Architect in the Office of the CTO. He has over 25 years of extensive management, engineering, technology, entrepreneurial and leadership experience. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms. He most recently served as a strategic consultant to Fidelity Investments and before that as President, CTO and Founder of Katana Technology/Virtual Iron. Prior to co-founding Virtual Iron, he was Chief Technology Officer at Mangosoft, an Internet software and storage company with pioneering peer-to-peer clustering, caching and file system products. Earlier, Scott was Technical Director for Digital's industry acclaimed VAXCluster and VMS Volume Shadowing products, as well as Digital's Windows NT clustering technology.
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David Deming, President and Founder, Solutions Technology
David Deming is the president and founder of Solution Technology. He is a certified experiential facilitator and coach who has an extensive background in both the storage networking industry and personal growth techniques and technology.
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Neal Ekker, Vice President, Marketing, Texas Memory Systems
Neal Ekker is Vice President of Marketing at Texas Memory Systems. He brings 30 years of professional, academic, and business communications experience coupled with 12 years IT management and marketing expertise.
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Ron Emerick, I/O Architect, Sun Microsystems
Ron Emerick is an IO Architect / Technologist in Sun Microsystems Systems Group. He is a IO Architect working on IO Infrastructure and Architecture for Sun systems. Ron is an active member of the PCI SIG and has been involved in IO architectures for many years. Prior to joining Sun, Ron was a Storage Area Network Specialist, designing and implementing SANs throughout the country. He has over 27 years of Industry Experience in IO, Storage and Application and OS Development.
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Steven Teppler, Esq., Senior Counsel, KamberEdelson, LLC
Steven W. Teppler is Senior Counsel at KamberEdelson, LLC in New York City, and concentrates his practice on data protection, electronic discovery, digital evidence management, and authentication and admissibility issues uniquely inherent to computer generated information, including spoliation issues arising from unauthorized or illegal data manipulation or alteration. He is the Co-Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Information Security Committee, and the Vice-Chair of the ABA’s eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Committee. Mr. Teppler has authored over a dozen articles relating to information technology law, digital evidence, and eDiscovery. Mr. Teppler is also a contributing author of “Foundations of Digital Evidence†(American Bar Association, 2008).
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Roland Etcheverry, Chief Information Officer, Champion Technologies
Roland Etcheverry is CIO of Champion Technologies, a specialty chemicals company for the oil and gas industry, based in Houston, Texas. Roland is responsible for the management and delivery of the firm's information and data. He also prepares for disasters as part of his daily routine, and that preparation has successfully protected the company from a category 2 storm - Hurricane Ike. Mr. Etcheverry joined Champion Technologies in 2004.
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Jacob Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer
Jacob Farmer is the CTO of Cambridge Computer, an integrator and consulting firm specializing in data protection and storage technologies. His no-nonsense, fast-paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated instructor at the Spring 2008 Storage Networking World conference. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.
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Steve Fingerhut, Senior Director of Marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI Corporation
Steve Fingerhut has over 15 years of strategic IT product planning and marketing leadership experience. Steve is the senior director of marketing for the Storage Components Group at LSI Corporation. He is responsible for strategic planning, product marketing, and demand creation for the company's' SAS component, software, and switch solutions.
Prior to joining LSI in 2008, Steve was a global account manager at Intel. In this role he led the efforts to align major Tier 1 server and storage OEM's requirements with Intel's product roadmaps and bring those products to market. Before that he held a variety of senior strategic planning and product marketing positions in Intel's server and storage groups. He joined Intel in 1999.
Steve received a master of business administration from Yale School of Management, and bachelor's degree from Saint Louis University.
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Michael Fishman, Chief Technology Officer, Backup Platforms Group, EMC Corporation
Mike Fishman has spent over 20 years with EMC as a specialist in information solutions working on backup, restore, replication and content management. Mike's responsibilities are divided between investigating strategic technologies for future products and architecting and delivering data protection solutions for data consumers. Michael has been involved since inception with the EMC Disk Library product family operating as Chief Technology Officer. Michael is active within the Storage Networking Industry Association. Mike has chaired technical working groups, worked on the SMIS specification and is currently the education chair for the SNIA Data Management Forum.
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Michael C Fishman, Chief Technology Officer, Backup Platforms Group, EMC
Mike Fishman has spent over 20 years with EMC as a specialist in information solutions working on backup, restore, replication and content management. Mike's responsibilities are divided between investigating strategic technologies for future products and architecting and delivering data protection solutions for data consumers. Michael has been involved since inception with the EMC Disk Library product operating as Chief Technologist.
Michael is active within the Storage Networking Industry Association. Mike has chaired technical working groups, worked on the SMIS specification and is currently the education chair for the SNIA Data Management Forum.
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Larry Freeman, Senior Marketing Manager, NetApp
During his 25-plus year career in the data storage industry, Larry has held various Engineering, Sales and Product Management positions with companies such as Data General, Telex Computer Products, NEC Information Systems, Spectra Logic, and NetApp. A frequent speaker and author, Larry's current role at NetApp is providing clarity around data storage efficiency techniques, including deduplication. Larry is the founder and co-chair of SNIA's Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Group, and is active within the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Larry also maintains a NetApp blog: Ask Dr Dedupe
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Ulrich Fuchs, Service Manager, CERN
Ulrich Fuchs earned a diploma in Particle Physics and Informatics in 1998. He was a Research Physicist until 2001, Service Manager of the 3000 CPU CERN Batch computing farm until 2003, Service Manager and IT Installations Supervisor of the ALICE experiment's data acquisition system 2003-present.
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Matthew Geddes, CIFS Architect, Nimble Storage
Matthew Geddes has been involved with CIFS and related protocols for over a decade and in a number of capacities. In addition to development on CIFS and DFS implementations, Matt has also spent time in the trenches on the other side as a Systems and Network Administrator and is more than happy to commiserate with fellow CIFS veterans.
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Carter George, Vice President, Products, Ocarina Networks
Carter George is VP of Products at Ocarina Networks. Previously, George was VP and co-founder of PolyServe, later acquired by HP. Also at Polyserve, he was VP of Business Development, and VP/GM of its scalable fault tolerant NAS storage division. Prior to PolyServe, George was the Chief Enterprise Architect for Sequent Computer--later acquired by IBM for ~$1Billion--growing the company's consulting business from scratch to $100M, overseeing its M&A; division, and playing other key roles.
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Charles Gilmarc, Distinguised Engineer, LSI Corporation
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Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies
Dror Goldenberg, Director of Architecture at Mellanox Technologies, is responsible for Mellanox' silicon products and software architecture. Prior to joining Mellanox, Dror served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force's elite R&D; team in the area of communication protocols, and worked in the Intel Microprocessor Group. He holds a BSEE and an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology Israel.
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Howard Goldstein, President and Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI Express and others.
Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He is the founder and principal member of Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com for more information. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both.
Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks and Storage Series editor for Digital Press.
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Tom Hammond-Doel, Vice Chairman, FCIA, FCIA
Tom Hammond-Doel has delivered cutting-edge solutions for the Fibre Channel industry since near its inception. Tom is a Senior Alliance Manager for the Engenio Storage Group of LSI, responsible for internal and external technical guidance, and promotion of a more successful storage industry through his work with forming alliances with partners and industry associations. He is a recognized advocate for the storage networking industry, speaking at industry events, evangelizing storage networking to other industries, and helping develop and drive industry-level marketing and standards requirements. Tom has held seats on both FCIA and SNIA boards, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the FCIA. He is the author of numerous industry articles, editorials and white papers, and holds multiple storage related patents. Tom lives in Everett, Washington.
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Pat Hanavan, Vice President, Product Management, Backup Exec, Symantec Data Protection Group
Pat Hanavan is the vice president of product management for the Backup Exec product family within Symantec's Data Protection Group. In this role, Hanavan is responsible for the overall product direction, strategies and business performance for Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery. These market leading products ensure successful backup and recovery of information and systems for organizations worldwide.
Prior to his product management responsibilities, Pat was responsible for the Backup Exec engineering team for many years and was a major contributor to driving technology innovations in collaboration with key partners. The technology innovations within VERITAS' products were in the areas of SAN based backup solutions, disk based data protection methods, open file protection and alternate backup methods. Hanavan was also a founding member and active contributor to the company's Patent Filter Committee, and is a Symantec inventor as well.
Hanavan has more than 30 years experience in the software industry, with 20 of those years focusing on data protection.
Hanavan graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas with a bachelor's degree. He also attended the University of Texas at San Antonio where he pursued a master's degree in computer science.
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Larry Hart, Worldwide Senior Manager, Dell Storage & Networking Product Group
Larry Hart is responsible for worldwide product management and marketing of Dell Storage & Networking products. Mr. Hart sets the strategic direction for Dell's PowerVault disk array business and enterprise networking products. He also oversees product planning and product management for these product lines. During the past nine years at Dell, he has helped position Dell as the worldwide leader in Windows/Linux storage and helped launch the PowerConnect networking business.
Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Hart served as a general manager for Baylor University's Information Technology Center where he managed and established corporate IT standards for the campus. In this role, he managed strategic IT supplier relationships to provide best-in-class solutions to the University.
Mr. Hart holds an engineering degree and an MBA from Texas A&M; University.
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Alfred Hernandez, Senior Systems Architect, Oxy
Alfred Hernandez is a 28 year veteran at Oxy and is a Senior Systems Architect. He leads a team that is responsible for defining the storage architecture at Oxy. Oxy currently has 15 sites worldwide with a total of 500 TB deployed.
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Eric Herzog, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Tarmin Technologies
Before joining Tarmin Technologies as Vice President of marketing and sales, Eric Herzog was VP of marketing and operations at Asempra. Herzog has over 20 years of marketing and sales experience in the storage software and systems hardware markets. Prior to Asempra, he was vice president of marketing at Maxtor, ARIO Data Networks, and Topio and was vice president, business line management for IBM's storage division. Herzog has also held VP positions at Zambeel and Streamlogic. Herzog holds a B.A. degree in history from the UC Davis, where he also studied towards a M.A. degree in Chinese history. He has been a frequent speaker on storage and networking subjects at technology trade conferences.
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Eric Hibbard, Chief Technology Officer, Security and Privacy, SNIA Storage Security Best Practices
Eric Hibbard is the CTO Security and Privacy in Hitachi Data Systems where he is responsible for storage security strategy, identifying and defining new storage security architectures, and designing new storage networking infrastructures. Mr. Hibbard is a senior security professional with almost 30 years experience in information and communications technology, working for government, academia, and industry. Hibbard serves as the International Representative for the INCITS/CS1 Cyber Security, member of the SNIA Technical Council, Chair of the SNIA Security TWG and the Vice Chair of IEEE P1619. He is also involved with INCITS/T11, ISACA, ISSA, TCG, IEEE-USA CIPC, and the American Bar Association. Mr. Hibbard currently holds the (ISC)2 CISSP certification as well as the ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP concentration certifications. He also holds the ISACA CISA and the SNIA SCSE certifications. His educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science and a Certificate of Proficiency in Data Communications.
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Dave Hitz, Executive Vice President, Founder, NetApp
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Brandon Hoff, Director of Product Marketing, Emulex
Brandon Hoff focused his career on designing, developing, and applying industry-shifting technologies to solving customer problems with the right security technology, improved storage system architecture and secure networking solutions. With more than 20 years of executive leadership, product management, engineering design and development, as well as strategic and channel marketing experience at innovative companies including Emulex, San Juan Technologies, CipherOptics, and McDATA, obtained a keen understanding of the data protection challenges enterprises face today. At Emulex, Hoff focuses on developing the company's security product and solution strategy to enable customers to deploy data protection solutions across their environment.
A graduate of Colorado State University with a BS in electrical engineering, Hoff holds an MBA in marketing and finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and is a former co-Chair of the Storage Security Industry Forum.
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Carl Howell, Senior Systems Engineer, University of West Florida
Carl Howell is Senior Systems Engineer with over twelve years of experience, the most recent eight with the University of West Florida. Over the last eight years he's been directly involved in the deployment of over 100TB of NetApp storage, the Active Directory and Exchange deployments for over 10,000 users, the roll-out of UWF's virtual infrastructure, and the establishment of their COOP/DR site.
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Walt Hubis, Software Architect, LSI
Walt is a Software Architect with LSI Corporation, Engenio Storage Group, with responsibility for defining secure storage and network attached storage products and solutions. Walt has over twenty years of experience in storage systems engineering in both development and managerial positions and has authored several key patents in RAID and other storage related technologies. He is currently the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group Key Management Services
Subgroup, Chair of the IEEE SISWG P1619.3 Key Management subcommittee, and Secretary of the IEEE Security in Storage work group (SISWG). Walt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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John Hufferd, Consultant, Hufferd Enterprise
John Hufferd, Consultant, Hufferd Enterprises John Hufferd is currently a Consultant for his own company, Hufferd Enterprises. Prior to this he was the Senior Executive Director of Technology at Brocade Communications, John Hufferd was responsible for defining Brocade's technology direction and strategy of storage networks including iSCSI based, FC based, FCoE based, and NAS (CIFS, CIFS) networks. John has over 40 years in the storage and networking industries and prior to joining Brocade; John was retired from the IBM Corporation, where he was focused on Storage Networking Strategies. John was a member of the IETF the IBTA (InfiniBand Trade Association) and the T11 Fibre Channel Standards Group -- BB5 which is focused on FCoE. John also has held positions on the board of advisors for 8 different companies, and has authored the definitive book on iSCSI called "iSCSI -- The Universal Storage Connection", published by Addison-Wesley.
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Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solutions Architect, NetApp
Jason Iehl is a data protection solutions architect for NetApp where he is responsible for analyzing, evaluating and designing backup and recovery solutions for enterprise end-users. He provides industry and technical product training and also educates customers on existing and emerging data protection technologies and best practices. He acts as a key technical advisor [to sales, systems engineers and marketing] for ongoing customer deployments and drives the continuous improvement of the overall solutions architecture and technical deployment strategy of data protection solutions. In addition to his responsibilities with NetApp, Jason has been an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) where he is a co-chair of the Data Protection Initiative (DPI) and co-founded the Virtual Tape Library and Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Groups within the Data Management Forum (DMF).
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Jose Iglesias, Vice President of Global Solutions, Symantec Corporation
As Vice President of Global Solutions at Symantec Corporation, Jose Iglesias leads the effort of integrating availability and security into solutions which provide value to customers worldwide. Prior to joining Symantec through the merger with Veritas, Iglesias was responsible for product management and expanding the company's product portfolio into new markets.
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Blair Semple, CISSP, ISSEP, Security Evangelist, SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum/NetApp
With over 10 years of specific storage security experience, Blair is the Vice Chair for the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum, and the Storage Security Evangelist at NetApp focused on information security and, more specifically, storage security. He is responsible for delivering global outbound communications on the state of the storage security market, emerging standards for storage security, Introduction to Encryption, the work being done in the IEEE P1619 and other communities. In addition, Blair works directly with NetApp customers defining the requirements, challenges and benefits of storage security along with the value that NetApp solutions bring to this environment. Prior to joining NetApp, Blair was with Kasten Chase in a variety of roles including Technology Officer and Business Development Director. From 1996 - 2004 he was the company's primary interface with the National Security Agency's RASP program. Working together with NSA, Kasten Chase created a multifaceted technology solution that supported over 20,000 users requiring access to classified data via mobile laptops. The RASP solution included both encrypting PCMCIA modems and the first laptop security solution certified by NSA to protect classified information. A large part of Blair's role involved educating military, intelligence and other government personnel on aspects of storage and communications security for mobile users in the U.S., and around the world. A physics major at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Canada, Blair has continued his education in information security including having attained both CISSP and ISSEP certifications - the latter credential demonstrating competence in the rigorous requirements for information security engineering and currently held by only 300 or so individuals worldwide.
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Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Solid State Drives and Hard Drive Components, IDC
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Dr. M. K. Jibbe, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Manager, Test Architect and Interoperability Teams, LSI Corporation (ESG)
Dr. M. K. Jibbe manages the test architect & Interoperability team in Wichita, Ks, and Product Certification Team in India at LSI Corporation (ESG). As an architect lead, Dr. Jibbe and his group define and design the test requirements and test processes for all the LSI Storage products. In IOP, Dr Jibbe's group verifies that the Engenio Storage products are compliant to different standards, and interoperable with all the 3rd party Vendors supported by LSI Corporation. Also, he defines the test requirements for the Vendor's self certifications with the Engenio RAID products. Dr. Jibbe has been awarded 17 US / Canada patents, 29 others in Patent Pending State, and published over 46 papers in different technical Conferences held in USA and Europe. The patents and papers are related to areas such as hardware development (Chips emulating RAID technology), Modeling, Software development related to RAID technology, protocols and Networks, and different test tools and mechanisms. Dr. M. K. Jibbe is an Adjunct Professor at The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Dr. Jibbe teaches classes related to hardware simulation, MPP, SCSI protocol, Computer Architecture, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS protocol, Programming Languages and Standards, and other Basic Electrical and Computer engineering classes such as Electromagnetic, Circuit Design and Analysis, and Digital Designs.
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Lee Johns, Director, HP StorageWorks
Lee Johns is Director of Marketing for next generation storage in the HP Enterprise Servers and Storage Business Unit. In this role, Lee is responsible for bringing to market a modular portfolio of storage solutions and data services that enable customers to gain control of their information & obtain better business outcomes. Lee is keenly interested in the possibility of converging server and storage platforms to enable easier and more cost effective infrastructure for customers to deploy applications.
Previously Lee was director of Marketing for Entry Storage and Blades where he was responsible for delivering the latest generation of MSA products to market as well as integrating more storage capabilities with the HP BladeSystem.
Before moving into the HP StorageWorks division Lee ran a marketing and engineering organization focused on unified management of servers and storage and building out the HP management ecosystem "Insight Control" for the HP BladeSystem. Product lines he has managed have included HP Systems Insight Manager, the HP iLO management processor and ProLiant Essentials software.
Prior to HP acquiring Compaq, Lee was one of the architects behind Compaq Adaptive Infrastructure, a strategy for Information Technology infrastructures that adapt easily to change & conserve precious resources and which was a precursor to HP Adaptive Infrastructure.
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Sharan Kalwani, Global HPC Architect and Computing Infrastructure Manager, General Motors
Sharan Kalwani is a global HPC architect and computing infrastructure manager at General Motors, tasked with continually prospecting and deploying HPC technologies toward meeting business goals in various engineering disciplines ranging from car design using CAE methods to pure R&D; of future technologies.
Since 1999, Mr. Kalwani has lead a team of over 21 technology professionals to manage a diverse HPC base, currently at 5,500+ processors, along with several hundred terabytes of storage, high-speed local interconnects and a wide area network using dense fiber optics. Mr. Kalwani has over 25 years of experience in the supercomputing arena. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering-Delhi University, India and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University-Detroit Michigan.
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Ashvin Kamaraju, Vice President Engineering, Symantec
Ashvin Kamaraju, is Vice President of Engineering and Product Management in Symantec's Storage Management group. He leads an organization developing emerging products in storage. Prior to the current role, Ashvin has led the engineering organization for the VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System and Volume Replication. Ashvin's interests include operating systems, distributed file systems, storage infrastructure for web services and all aspects of data management.
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Carole Kammen, Principal and Co-founder, Pathways Business Institute
Carole Kammen is Principal and Co-Founder of Pathways Business Institute, a San Francisco based management consulting firm and Pathways Institute a public spiritual growth organization. Both companies, founded in 1986, are dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness skills that lead to personal, professional and spiritual wisdom. Pathways has conducted thousands of lectures, seminars, and experiential workshops worldwide and over 28,000 people have participated in Pathways programs unlocking the passion and potential that lies within them and their teams to ignite and create success. Ms. Kammen guides her clients in expanding the effectiveness and resourcefulness of individuals, mobilizing the collective capacities of groups, and developing partnerships that flourish.
Pathways Business Institute (PBI) specializes in facilitation, personal and leadership development, cultural transformation, negotiation and team building. While most individual's, regardless of their level of responsibility have had many years of education in the technical aspects of their jobs, they have only had months or weeks of training in how to be a fully functional member of a team and a highly capable human being. In fact most organizations are profoundly limited not only by physical resources and professional skills, but by the lack of human skills. At PBI we expand the level of human skills and workplace dynamics from the collection of personal experiences within the organization and elevate them to a complete, structured body of knowledge. This knowledge can be applied anywhere within the organization – from a sales team to a management team, from a single executive to an entire work force. PBI works with large and small clients across all stages of the organizational lifecycle, including Fortune 500 global companies, non-profits, governmental agencies and start-ups.
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Mark Kaufman, Vice President Engineering, Data Protection, Iron Mountain
Mark Kaufman joined Iron Mountain Digital in February 2007 as Vice President of Engineering, Data Protection. Kaufman brings over 25 years of software industry experience to his role of overseeing development of Iron Mountain's digital data protection products. Previously Kaufman was at ExaGrid Systems as Interim CEO and Executive Vice President of Engineering. Prior to that, he built and ran EMC's Cambridge Software Center, creating a number of industry leading products. Kaufman has also held executive management positions at Dolphin Interconnect Solutions and Kendall Square Research and holds multiple patents in the area of distributed operating systems.
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Jay Kidd, Chief Marketing Officer, NetApp
Jay Kidd is the chief marketing officer at NetApp. In that role, Kidd is responsible for all corporate marketing, including branding, press and analyst relations, and demand generation, as well as solution marketing, including product and service marketing, alliances, and field readiness.
Kidd has extensive experience in storage, networking, and high-performance systems. Before joining NetApp, he held the position of chief technology officer and vice president of Product Management at Brocade, where he was vital to developing and implementing the Brocade product roadmap, including infrastructure and strategic evangelism.
Before joining Brocade, Kidd was vice president of Marketing for Omneon Video Networks, Inc., a supplier of storage and networking equipment for video broadcasters, and Multigen, a real-time 3D simulation software company.
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Morris Koeneke, Director, Data and Storage Management, Enterprise Architecture, Mary Kay Inc.
Morris Koeneke has over twenty-five years of IT experience, focusing on database and storage infrastructure technologies for the last ten. He leads a global team of architects, engineers and administrators responsible for Oracle and SQL Server Databases, Unix and OpenVMS operating systems, Microsoft Windows clustering solutions, enterprise backup/recovery, and long distance data replication services.
Morris experienced the shortcomings of ‘virtualization' features added to some traditional storage arrays in the late 90s, and championed the migration to a multi-vendor tiered storage model three years ago. Morris is currently evaluating the TCO, realized benefits, and opportunities for improvements within that model, and he developed the high-level architecture for storage infrastructure used by Mary Kay domestically, as well as the application hosting and data tier infrastructure for operations in Shanghai, London and Hong.
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Joshua Konkle, NAS Technical Evangelist, NetApp
Joshua interacts with customers to identify their business challenges and how to use storage, software and IT services to address those challenges. He is responsible for NFS, CIFS and Engineering Applications, such as Software Development, Product Lifecycle Management and Electronic Design Automation. His background crosses both UNIX and Windows environments, including product management for Active Directory Security tools and Data Archiving. He served on the Board of Directors of the SNIA Data Management Forum and Chairman for the Compliance Advisory Group at Symantec, Inc. With more than 15 years in the storage, document and digital identity industries, Joshua's business and technical expertise is instrumental in customers, employee and partner success. Joshua is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional and NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator.
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Jeff Kubacki, Chief Information Officer, Kroll, a Marsh and McLennan Company
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Peter Lauterbach, Director of Performance, Akorri
Peter Lauterbach is currently the director of performance engineering for Akorri where he is responsible for managing performance features for Akorri's BalancePoint. Prior to joining Akorri, Lauterbach worked at EMC for over ten years where he served as Senior Manager of Engineering for a variety of products. He holds a MBA in High Tech from Northeastern University - Graduate School of Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Julie Lockner, President & Founder, Data Management Consulting Services, LLC
Julie Lockner has over 15 years experience architecting, marketing and selling business application software. As Founder and President of Data Management Consulting Services, she leads a team of experts who implement Information-Centric Data Management Strategies to help clients better leverage their IT investments in Storage and Application software.
Previously, she was VP at Solix Technologies and a Portfolio Architect for EMC where she defined product and sales strategies in the application data management software market. She also held various engineering, sales and marketing positions in companies such as EMC, Oracle, and Raytheon.
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Ken Male, Chief Information Officer, TheInfoPro
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Michael Marchi, Vice President, Product & Segment Marketing, CommVault
Michael Marchi is the vice president of Product & Segment Marketing at CommVault. Previously, he served as vice president of solution marketing at Kazeon. Prior to joining Kazeon, he was the senior director of Marketing, Enterprise Data and Storage Management Solutions & Alliances at Network Appliance, and was responsible for data protection, archival and ECM alliances, and outbound marketing efforts for NearStore, the company's industry leading nearline storage product. Additionally, Marchi held senior level marketing and sales positions overseeing the Data Protection and Reference Information Solutions at Network Appliance. Marchi has over 20 years of combined sales and marketing management experience in the storage industry. Before joining NetApp, he held various positions in systems engineering and sales at Data General and Sun Microsystems.
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Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
Dennis Martin is the founder and President of Demartek, a computer industry analyst organization with its own test lab. Demartek focuses on lab validation testing and performance testing of hardware and software products. He has been working in the Information Technology industry for more than twenty-eight years, primarily involved in software development and project management in mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments. Dennis is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Windows Technology User Group in Denver, and served as its President for its first six years (1994-2000). He was re-elected President of the group in May 2008. Dennis has made numerous presentations at conferences and has authored many industry articles. He is a Microsoft Storage MVP for calendar years 2005-2009.
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Harry Mason, Director of Industry Marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI Corporation
Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing for LSI Logic's Storage Components Group, leads LSI's standards participation activities corporate wide, and participates in several storage related, standards' activities.
Mason has served on the Board of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and has been the President of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) for each of the past seven years.
With over 25 years of storage and semiconductor industry experience, he has been closely involved with numerous industry milestones including the introduction of the industry's first PCI component, the entry of NCR Microelectronics into the merchant semiconductor market and the launch of LSI's host adapters in the indirect sales channel.
Mason came to LSI through the company's 1998 acquisition of Symbios Logic. Prior to Symbios Logic, he worked for NCR Microelectronics and Texas Instruments. For these companies, he held various senior positions with responsibilities that ranged from product line management to strategic marketing and served as the business unit director for storage products for a number of years.
Mason graduated with a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
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Harry Mason, Director Industry Marketing, LSI
Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing for LSI Logic's Storage Components Group, leads LSI's standards participation activities corporate wide, and participates in several storage related, standard's activities. Mason has served on the Board of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and has been the President of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) for each of the past seven years. With over 25 years of storage and semiconductor industry experience, he has been closely involved with numerous industry milestones including the introduction of the industry's first PCI component, the entry of NCR Microelectronics into the merchant semiconductor market and the launch of LSI's host adapters in the indirect sales channel. Mason came to LSI through the company's 1998 acquisition of Symbios Logic. Prior to Symbios Logic, he worked for NCR Microelectronics and Texas Instruments. For these companies, he held various senior positions with responsibilities that ranged from product line management to strategic marketing and served as the business unit director for storage products for a number of years. Mason graduated with a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
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Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Symantec Corporation
Paul Massiglia has been an engineer, product manager, and marketing manager in the data storage industry since 1979, with such companies as Digital, Adaptec, Quantum, Veritas, and Symantec. He is a former BoD member and Education Committee Chairperson of the SNIA, and originated the SNIA certification, tutorial, and technology booklet programs. A former vice chairman of the RAID Advisory Board, he is the author of 13 books on data storage topics, including The RAIDbook.
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Brian McKean, Storage Architect, LSI
Brian McKean is a storage architect in the Advanced Development Group at LSI Engenio Storage Group. He has been recently been working with flash technology in storage systems. Brian has been developing products for the computer storage industry since 1990. Products Brian has contributed to include disk array subsystems, printers, disk drives and magneto-optic drives. He holds 17 storage systems related patents. Brian has a BSME from Purdue University and a MS ECE from University of Texas.
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Doug Menefee, Chief Information Officer, Schumacher Group
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Phil Mills, Senior Technical Staff, IBM Corporation
Phil has been involved in the architecture and design of storage controller interfaces throughout his 30+ year career at IBM. His experience ranges from IBM's Parallel OEMI Channel to Control Unit Interface and Parallel SCSI to the serial interfaces ESCON and FICON and then to Fibre Channel. He has been awarded several patents in the areas of channel protocols and storage controllers, and has received company awards for significant innovations and technical contributions to IBM products. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Systems & Technology Group, currently focusing on Storage Software Architecture and Standards.
Phil is also IBM's primary representative to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He has served on the SNIA Board as a Director and its Secretary from 2002 to 2007, in addition to previously chairing both the Supported Solutions Forum and the Data Management Forum. Phil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with New Mexico State University.
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Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Ron manages the events business, awards programs, and strategic programs for IT management in existing and emerging technology sectors. Milton leads the team responsible for maintaining IT executive relationships, creating content, sponsor sales, operations, marketing, and audience development for these 40-50 events and 8 awards programs per year. Ron founded brands such as Premier 100®, Storage Networking World®, Business Intelligence Perspectives® and Green IT Symposium®. Ron frequently emcees industry conferences and moderates IT industry technology panels and roundtables at both multi-day conferences and regional events. He is also responsible for the same businesses at InfoWorld® and the Computerworld Honors Program®.
He has 25 years of experience in information technology, serving in both vendor and information technology management positions. Before his current role at IDG, Ron was Senior Vice President of CXO Media and General Manager of CIO Magazine's Executive Program Division. Prior to joining Computerworld in 1999, he was President and CEO of IDG's Internet Commerce (ICE) business unit, which he founded in 1996 as a start-up business, and was a pioneer in using e-commerce systems and web marketing. He was a 1996 recipient of the coveted IDG Chairman's Award for the most successful start-up business globally. Before joining IDG, Milton spent five years as Vice President/Partner of GLA Computer Systems, a software developer and channel integrator. He also held a variety of general management positions in channel management, field sales and marketing at Honeywell Information Systems and Bull HN. He holds degrees from Sir George Williams University and Concordia University.
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Bill Mottram, Principal Analyst, Veridictus Associates & The Wikibon Project
Mottram compliments his role the managing partner of Veridictus Associates Inc, a technology marketing consultancy as analyst practitioner with Data Mobility. He has over 30 years product development and marketing experience in the data storage and information technology industries. Experienced with Fortune 500 companies such as StorageTek, Compaq and HP and smaller, start-up enterprises including his own tape drive development venture. He has executive level positions as the marketing leader responsible for the development, introduction and “go-to-market activities for a number of innovative and highly successful data storage solutions. Although primarily a marketing professional Mottram has considerable expertise in technology management, corporate acquisition and public company funding. A graduate of Paisley College of Technology (electronic engineering) and holds a Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
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Philip Murphy, Vice President Engineering, Network Solutions Group, QLogic Corporation, QLogic Corporation
Philip Murphy, vice president of engineering at QLogic Corporation, is responsible for platform development encompassing all QLogic Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switching products including blades, edge switches, and director-class systems. Prior to joining QLogic, Mr. Murphy was vice president of platform engineering at SilverStorm Technologies which he co-founded in 2000 and was eventually acquired by QLogic in 2006. SilverStorm's core focus was on providing complete network solutions for high performance computing clusters. Prior to co-founding SilverStorm, Mr. Murphy was director of engineering at Unisys Corporation and responsible for all I/O development across the company's diverse product lines.
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Satheesh Nanniyur, Senior Product Marketing Manager, QLogic Corporation
Satheesh Nanniyur has over 8 years of experience in the Storage Industry. Starting his career as a Software Engineer, Satheesh has worked on a wide range of storage technologies including SCSI, Fibre Channel, Storage load balancing and failover, disk drivers, and LVM. Currently, Satheesh works as a Product Manager at QLogic Corporation responsible for IO solutions for Virtualized Platforms.
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Philippe Nicolas, Technology Evangelist, Brocade
Philippe Nicolas Technology Evangelist, Brocade Board of Directors, SNIA Europe Chairman & Founder, Regional Committee SNIA France Philippe Nicolas is Technology Evangelist dedicated to File Storage at Brocade. He has almost 20 years of experience in data storage and operating systems technologies. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Veritas Software and Symantec, both in technical and technical marketing positions. Prior 1997, he served various technical positions at SGI and Compaq, also in the storage, availability and data-management domain. In parallel, Philippe Nicolas started the SNIA Europe France regional committee in 2001, and he served as Chairman for France since its inception. He's also a board director of the SNIA Europe Board of Directors since November 2007 and received in 2005 the "Outstanding Service Award", from the SNIA Europe, for his industry and association contribution.
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Andrew Nielsen, Storage Security Product Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Andrew Nielsen is the Hitachi Data Systems Storage Security Product Manager. His primary responsibility is to develop and lead the storage security direction for Hitachi Data Systems' products. Before joining HDS, Andrew was SVB Financial Group's IT Security Manager, responsible for aligning the company's information security efforts with its business strategy, as well as evaluating emerging security technology. Prior to SVBFG, Andrew worked on a variety of government contracts in support of NASA. While supporting NASA, he specialized in PKI, identity management, and infrastructure technologies and participated in a variety of agency-wide security initiatives. Andrew received a BA in Creative Arts from San Jose State University and currently holds the CISSP, CISA, ISSAP, and ISSMP certifications.
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Hugo Patterson, Chief Technology Officer, Data Domain, Inc.
Hugo Patterson joined Data Domain in March 2002 and has served as the Company's Chief Architect since May 2002 prior to his formal elevation to Chief Technology Officer. From November 1999 to March 2002, Dr. Patterson was the lead architect for data availability and management at Network Appliance Inc.
Dr. Patterson holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Rob Peglar, Vice President Technology, Xiotech
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 31-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.
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Michael Peterson, President , Strategic Research Corporation
Michael Peterson is President of Strategic Research Corporation based in Santa Barbara California and Chief Strategy Advocate for the Storage Networking Industry Association's Data Management Forum. For the past 20 years he has been a leader and catalyst for the storage industry, publishing books and industry reports, consulting with the industry in business and market development, pioneering IT research on storage and management practices, creating conferences, speaking internationally as an industry visionary, forming industry trade groups, and developing new solutions and companies. Michael is the founder of the SNIA and was the past president from 1998 to 1999. In his role with the SNIA's Data Management Forum he has responsibility for strategically guiding its initiatives (Data Protection, Information Lifecycle Management, and Long-term Archive & Compliance Solutions), market education, and representing the organization internationally.
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John Pryor, Corporate Director of Information Services, Hospice of Michigan
John Pryor serves as the corporate director of information services for the Hospice of Michigan. In his role, John oversees the organization's systems integration and software implementations. Before joining the organization in 1992, John founded a company that specialized in writing custom software and guiding customers like Hospice of Michigan in making key systems decisions. He is a member of the Healthcare Technology Alliance.
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Ruben Quinonez, Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University
Rubén Quiñónez is an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and a Data Warehouse Strategist in the finance and Internet industries. In his 20 years of IT experience in corporate and government sectors, Dr. Quiñónez has concentrated on Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, application development, database design and tuning, and information security. He has published several papers in the field and has taught at many colleges and universities in Southern California. His consulting clients have included The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles County Department of Children Services, and Atlantic Richfield Company. He holds graduate degrees in Business Administration and Information Systems and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University.
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Dinesh Rao, Product Marketing Engineer, Intel
Dinesh Rao is the Product Line Manager for Intel's Storage Group and is responsible for the Home and SOHO storage roadmap and business. He has been working to ensure that Intel has a roadmap which is optimal for these market segments. In this capacity he has worked with customers to develop a healthy hardware and software ecosystem. Prior to this Dinesh has worked in various strategic planning roles for the embedded and server platform groups. In these roles he was responsible for developing and implementing key strategies and providing direction to the teams. He has 8 years of experience in architecting and designing Intel architecture based processors. Dinesh has an MSEE and has worked at Intel for the last 19 years.
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Joel Reich, Senior Director and General Manager, SAN/iSAN Business Unit, NetApp
Joel Reich is vice president and general manager of NetApp's SANiSAN Business Unit. In addition to managing NetApp's SAN development program, Reich's primary responsibilities include aligning and driving products, sales, services, and strategic partnerships to leverage market opportunities in fibre channel and iSCSI attached storage. Reich has over 20 years of marketing and technology management experience in the storage industry.
During his career, he has led or been involved in the definition and introduction of the world's first 3.5" hard disk drive (Rodime); the first disk array for open systems and Windows (Core); the first fibre channel RAID system (CLARiiON) and the industry's first Unified Storage system (NetApp)."
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Steve Reichwein, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, QLogic Corporation
Steve Reichwein is the senior manager of product marketing for QLogic's Storage Solutions Group. He is responsible for the product strategy and market development for routing solutions that encompass multi-protocol array access, virtual server connectivity and SAN-over-WAN bridging.
Reichwein joined QLogic in 2006 to help build QLogic's initiatives for end-to-end routing solutions. Previously, he has worked at Quantum and MTI Technology, with ten years experience in the storage industry as a product manager. In addition to his product strategy experience, Reichwein has spent 15 years as a design engineer for major corporations such as Sony, Westinghouse and Hughes Aircraft.
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Dr. Erik Riedel, Director of Interfaces and Architecture, Seagate Research
Dr. Erik Riedel is Director of Interfaces & Architecture at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA. His group focusses on novel storage devices and systems with increased intelligence to optimize performance, improve security, improve reliability, automate management, and enable smarter organization of data. The group's work targets all Seagate product families from those in large-scale enterprise storage clusters to ad-hoc collections of consumer and mobile storage devices working together. Erik is the chair of the SNIA Green Storage Technical Work Group and a member of the SNIA Technical Council, helping to lead industry-wide education, technology promotion and standardization efforts. He also serves on the technical advisory board for The Technology Collaborative supporting technology startups in Pennsylvania. Before joining Seagate, Erik was a researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA working on networked storage, distributed storage and security. He has authored and co-authored ten granted patents and a number of pending patent applications, as well as numerous technical publications on a range of storage-related topics. Erik holds B.S., M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).
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Errol Roberts, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
With more than 16 years of networking, and telecommunications experience, Errol Roberts brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Errol Roberts is a Distinguished Systems Engineer (DSE) at Cisco with a focus on Optical Transport, Data Center architecture and technologies for Service Provider and Enterprise environments. In his role as DSE at Cisco, Mr. Roberts influences technical direction and technology solutions to address customer requirements and industry trends. In his role, Mr. Roberts consults with customers on emerging technology business application, adoption, development, and architecture impact. Prior to joining Cisco, Errol worked in the of area software development and system administration. Errol holds a Graduate (MSc) degree from New York University
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Patrick Rogers, Vice President, Solutions Marketing, NetApp
Patrick Rogers is vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. In this role, he is responsible for worldwide Product Marketing, Global Alliance Partnerships, and Storage Solutions Marketing.
Before joining NetApp, Rogers served as chief operating officer for Scale Eight Inc., a startup focusing on file storage solutions, where he spent three years building the company's storage service and product business. Rogers also spent 17 years at Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of marketing roles spanning product marketing, business development, vertical markets, and marketing communications. One of his key roles was Worldwide Marketing manager for the Enterprise Computing business unit. Earlier, he led the Product Management team for HP's line of high-performance UNIX® OS-based computer systems, and he was also a member of the design team for the first PA-RISC CPU developed by HP.
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Barry Rudolph, Vice President, Strategy and Stack Integration, Storage Platform , IBM
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Enrique Salem, President and CEO, Symantec
Enrique Salem has more than 20 years of experience in sales, product delivery and operations. Before returning to Symantec in 2004, Salem was president and chief executive officer of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company that was acquired by Symantec in 2004. As senior vice president of products and technology at Oblix Inc., he spearheaded corporate strategy and development, leading the company's engineering, product management and technology groups; and at Ask Jeeves Inc., he led the engineering group and IT operations. Salem first joined Symantec in 1990 when the company acquired Peter Norton Computing. He held a variety of positions during that nine-year tenure including chief technology officer and vice president of the security business unit.
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Mark Saussure, Director, Digital Library Infrastructure, Information Technology Services, The Pennsylvania State University
Information Technology Services, the central IT organization for The Pennsylvania State University, provides the computing infrastructure for the University Libraries. In collaboration with the Libraries and other units within the University Mark is focused on providing the infrastructure for digital content storage, including digital library collections, electronic record archiving, and e-science/e-research data access. Active with the SNIA XAM Initiative Mark has been an advocate to broaden the scope of XAM to enable more robust long term preservation, storage and access to digital collections through the adoption into a wider range of storage hardware.
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Steven Scully, Research Manager, Enterprise Storage Systems, IDC
Steven Scully is a Research Manager for IDC's Enterprise Storage Systems research group. He is responsible for authoring insight and analysis on storage-related dynamics and vendors, tracking pertinent technology trends and inflection points, and speaking on these dynamics at conferences. Steven leads and supports various consulting, white paper and modeling efforts, and responds to frequent storage-related inquiries. He also contributes to IDC's Quarterly Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker and to the Storage Software practice.
Steven has over 20 years of experience in high technology and has held product management and marketing positions with companies including Exabyte, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek and McDATA. Prior to joining IDC, he was the Director of Product Management for ProStor Systems.
Steven received his MBA from Vanderbilt University and his BS in Engineering from the University of Colorado.
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Shandor Simon, Director of Networking Services, The Latin School of Chicago
Mr. Simon has been with the Latin School of Chicago for nine years where he manages the IT infrastructure (network, storage, servers, telephony and security) across the campus. He is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer and a Cisco Certified Network Associate. Prior to the Latin School, Mr. Simon was with the University of Chicago for four years.
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Hubbert Smith, Director Enterprise Storage Marketing, Samsung Electronics
Hubbert Smith has 20+ years of experience which spans the entire spectrum of enterprise servers and storage. Mr. Smith has hands on experience in systems administration, advanced application data management, relational databases, file system & replication R&D;, servers, file servers, enterprise storage systems, enterprise hard drives and enterprise solid state drives.
Mr Smith is director of Enterprise Storage Marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., and is currently working on industry solutions which include both hard disk drives and solid state drives to deliver storage systems with improved performance and higher capacities, while substantially reducing the heat and power footprint. Mr. Smith wrote the original thirteen SATA use cases that influenced the direction of the SATA industry standard. He is the co-author of "Serial ATA Architectures and Applications," published by Intel Press.
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Chris Stakutis, Vice President, Emerging Technologies, CA, Inc.
Chris is a renowned inventor with over 20 patents, 2 published books, numerous articles, and often seen speaking on the dramatic changes pervasive technology is bringing. Prior to CA, Chris was CTO of IBM/Tivoli's Advanced File System market initiative which focused on bringing real-time file system management capabilities across the enterprise. Chris was the founder and CTO of SANergy, sold to IBM in 2000. SANergy was the first shared-SAN file system technology to use a split-data/meta-data approach to high-speed data sharing. At Mercury Computers, he was one of the lead architects for the massively parallel operating system used today by high-end defense and imaging applications. Prior to that, Chris was the lead architect at Precision Robots developing applications to operate a chorus of robots in a wafer handling environment. Many years at MIT/Lincoln-Labs.
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David Stevens, Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University
David Stevens is the Storage Manager for the Division of Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University. In this position, he is responsible for the institution's storage area networks and backup services as well as the employees charged with maintaining the storage and backup infrastructure. Mr. Stevens has been with Carnegie Mellon since 1998, and has held a variety of roles, including Systems Manager and Research Systems Programmer. Mr. Stevens is also a Governing Board member of the SNIA End User Council, and serves as the End User Technical Lead for the Security and IP Storage Hands-On Labs at Storage Networking World conferences.
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Jonathan Thatcher, Fellow, Fusion-io
Mr. Thatcher currently serves as Fusion-io's Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO). Prior to Fusion-io, Thatcher has held a variety of technical management positions, including: Realm Systems' CKO, Linux Networx' Director of Product Marketing, World Wide Packets' Chief Technologist, and Picolight's Vice President of Product Marketing. During 13 years at IBM, Thatcher designed processor systems, led a team that successfully designed and deployed sophisticated hardware design tools, and innovated and marketed high-speed optical transceivers for gigabit Fibre Channel and Ethernet. Thatcher currently serves as Chair of SNIA's Solid State Storage Technical Working Group. Previously, Thatcher held leadership roles in Fibre Channel and Ethernet standards activities, including chairing the 10-Gigabit Ethernet committee. Thatcher was instrumental in the formation and success of a number of related marketing associations, including chairing the Ethernet in the First Mile Association.
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Paul Tien, Vice President of Network Storage, NETGEAR Inc.
Paul is currently the Vice President of Network Storage at NETGEAR. He joined NETGEAR through the company's acquisition in 2007 of Infrant Technologies, the maker of ReadyNAS, for which Paul was the founder and CEO. Prior to Infrant, Paul founded Platform Technologies and MediaChips, which were semiconductor companies in the multimedia field, and they were acquired by ESS and OPTi respectively. Paul also worked at AMD and Sun Microsystems on microprocessor and computer system products. Paul is a prolific speaker and has participated in the Digital Home Expo and Storage Vision conferences, where he presented on the topic of NAS.
Paul received BS and MS degrees from UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is the holder of two US patents on computer architecture.
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Jeff Tofano, Chief Technology Officer, Quantum
Jeffrey Tofano is a recognized industry veteran, having worked in storage and data protection for more than 25 years. As Chief Technology Officer at Quantum, he oversees the company's technological vision and portfolio roadmaps, with an emphasis on integrating data deduplication and file system technologies into the company's broader solutions strategy, as well as protecting critical business data in a virtual world. Since joining Quantum in 2007, Tofano has spoken on various topics covering emerging data protection concepts and technologies for audiences at data protection and storage network conferences, including Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) events, TechTarget Backup School end-user tutorials and national conferences such as Storage Network World (SNW) and Symantec Vision.
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Josh Tseng, Director Technical Marketing, Riverbed
Josh Tseng is the Director of Technical Marketing at Riverbed Technology. Riverbed is widely recognized as the market leader in WAN optimization solutions. Since joining Riverbed, Mr. Tseng has been actively driving awareness of the Riverbed Steelhead solution as a technical spokesman. Prior to Riverbed, Mr. Tseng worked closely with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and coauthored several IETF standards related to iSCSI and IP storage. Mr. Tseng has held positions in network engineering, marketing, and product management at various companies over the past 13 years, including at Hewlett Packard.
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Geoff Tudor, Founder & Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, Nirvanix
Geoff Tudor most recently served as CEO of Advent Networks, Inc. At Advent, he created the cable industry's first router capable of delivering broadband to customers at dedicated speeds of 40 Mbps. In 2000, Geoff co-founded Tellaire Corp. to commercialize free space optic technologies and deliver wireless Gigabit Ethernet. MRV Communications (NASDAQ:MRVC) acquired the company's networks. Mr. Tudor also co-founded GNS Technologies, where he co-wrote Reflex Backup, the first real-time backup application for Windows. Reflex was acquired by Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC). Geoff was recognized by Discover Magazine as one of the nation's leading innovators in technology and was nominated in 2003 for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Geoff holds an M.B.A. from the University of Texas and a bachelor's degree from Tulane University.
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Eric Ulmer, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Software Utility Services, Navitaire
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Clint VanWinkle, IT Operations Manager, Holland & Knight LLP
Clint VanWinkle has been in the IT field for over 20 years. He has been with Holland & Knight for the past 11 years and is passionate about database and storage architecture/technology. He holds several certifications including MCDBA, MCSE, MCP, CNA, Network+
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David P Vellante, Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
Mr. Vellante is an experienced analyst, software CEO and entrepreneur. He founded IDC's storage service and over a 15-year career at IDC became Senior Vice President of the firm's Systems, Storage and Software division. He co-founded Wikibon.org with a mission to enable technology peers to collaborate through the open source sharing of free advisory knowledge.
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Denise Chatam Walker, Chief Security Officer, Lone Star College System
Dr. Denise Chatam Walker serves as Chief Security Officer, formerly Dean of Technology and Institutional Research, for Lone Star College System, Houston, Tx and author of the book "Cybercrime: Secure IT or Lose IT". Dr. Walker has more than 20 years of progressive IT leadership in auditing, security, business continuity, global application development, and project management. She is a public speaker on cybercrime prevention programs, implementing and sustaining comprehensive risk management programs, project management tips, tricks, and traps, and IT analysis and strategy. Dr. Chatam holds a Doctorate of Business Administration, specializing in information security and cybercrime, a Masters of Science in Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, and a graduate certificate in project management.
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Russell Warren, Storage Development Architect, IBM Corporation
Russ currently works on the storage software team as an architect for the storage software projects. These initiatives cover managing our IBM storage hardware, including device configuration, to managing a SAN-wide heterogeneous storage environment. Russ has extensive experience (32 years) in systems, network and applications management. Russ worked in Tivoli and IBM enterprise management on business systems management, applications management, network management, LAN management, and systems management. Russ has worked on NetView, both z/os and distributed, the Tivoli Framework, LAN network management, and internet management applications, and business impact management. Russ is working with the SMI marketing committee and has provided tutorials in previous SNWs.
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Chris Watkis, IT Director, Grey Healthcare Group
After being educated at Oxford and Cambridge, Chris Watkis began a career in IT in the advertising industry in New York. He spent eight years at Saatchi & Saatchi, then moved to Proxicomics, a web services firm, and Dimension Data, a global services IT firm. Since 2004, he has been IT Director at Grey Healthcare (GHC), one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies. At GHC, Watkis is responsible for the software and hardware infrastructures, management of the technology team, and compliance issues affecting healthcare and IT.
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John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc.
Mr. Webster is Principal IT Advisor at Illuminata, Inc, an internationally recognized industry analyst firm. He is responsible for on-going analysis of storage and information management topics, including storage utility and grid services, integration strategies, storage virtualization, ILM, objects-based storage, shared file systems, and distributed data protection. Mr. Webster's most recent book is Inescapable Data -¬ Harnessing the Power of Convergence. Mr. Webster's prior positions include Senior Analyst, Data Mobility Group; Vice President, Marketing, Storage Computer Corporation; Director of Computing Research, Yankee Group. In addition to being past Chairman of the Greater Boston Regional Computer Measurement Group, he is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He is a graduate of Boston University.
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Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Dr. Joseph L. White is currently a Distinguished engineer with Juniper Networks. Dr. White has previously worked for Decru (NetApp) as a Techincal Director and McDATA as part of the Office of the CTO. He joined McDATA in 2003 through the Nishan Systems acquisition. In 1998, he co-founded Nishan Systems, one of the first companies to champion IP storage within the industry and deliver enterprise quality, high performance, multi-protocol SAN switches, routers, and gateways. Prior to Nishan, Dr. White worked as a physicist at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center focusing on data acquisition, data analysis, and control systems programming for high energy physics experiments. He holds a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics from Rice University.
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Dr. Michael Willett, Senior Director, Security Research, Seagate Technology
Dr Michael Willett received his BS degree from the US Air Force Academy and his Masters and PhD in mathematics from NC State University. After a career as a university professor of mathematics and computer science, Michael joined IBM as a design architect, moving into IBM's Cryptography Competency Center. Later, Dr Willett joined Fiderus, a security and privacy consulting practice; subsequently, accepting a position with Wave Systems, working on programmable cryptographic chips used in the deployment of smart card technologies. Currently, Michael is a Senior Director in Seagate Research, focusing on security functionality on hard drives. Dr Willett represents Seagate on the Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors, Technical Committee, and the Trusted Storage Work Group. Michael also chairs the Privacy Framework Project of the ISTPA, developing an operational framework for implementing fair information privacy practices.
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Steve Wilson, Director of Technology and standards, Brocade
Steve Wilson is Director of Technology and Standards at Brocade. Steve's responsibilities include the development of technologies and architectures for storage networking and storage management. Steve is a principal contributor to the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel standards and SNIA technical activities.
Prior to Brocade, Steve held technical leadership positions with Amdahl, ISS/Sperry Univac, Memorex, and Trilogy Systems. The emphasis of his technical work at these companies was the development and implementation of computer, storage, and systems management technologies.
Steve has been involved with the SNIA since 1998. He established and chaired the SNIA Fibre Channel Work Group in its various forms from June 1998 until April 2002 and now serves on the Technical Council.
Steve continues to contribute to the ANSI Fibre Channel standards and is currently editor of the Fibre Channel Switching standard (FC-SW-5). Other Fibre Channel related activities include contributing to the FCoE and Inter-Fabric routing efforts in T11. In addition, Steve serves on the FCIA Board of Directors.
Steve is the recipient of the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his work on the Fibre Channel switching standards and received his degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1978.
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Matthias Wollnik, Program Manager, Microsoft
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Ben Woo, Vice President, Storage Systems Research, IDC
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Benjamin S Woo, Vice President, Storage Research, IDC
Benjamin Woo is Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Storage Systems research. He is responsible for advising IDC's clients on the evolution and trends relating to data storage systems; the impact storage systems have on adjacent technologies including servers, software and virtualization; and best practices in the deployment of storage systems in relation to numerous industry dynamics. In addition to authoring thoughtful and provocative insight on the storage industry, Mr. Woo speaks at conferences, customer engagements, and many other types of events worldwide.
Having devoted his entire professional career to data storage industry, he has used this diverse set of skills, knowledge and experience to advise many decision-makers at leading investment firms, and corporations. Additionally, Mr. Woo has served on a number of advisory councils of leading storage manufacturers advising them on strategies and direction.
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SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft
SW Worth is a Senior Standards Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW Worth was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.
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Dr. Alan Yoder, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, NetApp
Alan Yoder, Ph.D. is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at NetApp, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. Alan has been at NetApp since earning his Ph.D. in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP™ SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.
Alan co-chairs the Disk Resource Management TWG at SNIA, chairs the Enterprise Grid Alliance Data Provisioning Working Group and participates actively in several other Working Groups in the SNIA and DMTF.
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Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
Hubert Yoshida, as vice president and CTO, is responsible for defining the technical direction for Hitachi Data Systems and currently leads the company's effort to help customers address their Data Life Cycle requirements to address compliance, governance and operational risk issues. He was instrumental in evangelizing Hitachi's unique approach to storage virtualization which leverages existing storage services within the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform and extends it to externally attached, heterogeneous storage systems.
Yoshida is well known within the storage industry, and his blog was recently ranked among the "top 10 most influential" within the storage industry by Network World. In 2006, he was named "CTO of the Year" by Jon Toigo, and in October of 2006, Byte and Switch named him one of "Storage Networking's Heaviest Hitters."
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Terry Yoshii, IT Enterprise Architect, Intel Corporation
Terry Yoshii is an IT Enterprise Architect for Intel Corporation who has been with Intel for over 16 years. Terry was responsible for the design and implementation of the FC SANs that have been widely adopted at Intel. In his role within the IT Research and Technology Development group, Terry is focused on the investigation and introduction of new technologies that will benefit Intel IT. His current areas of focus within his organization are Information Lifecycle Management, Cloud Services, and Solid State Drives.
Terry is member of the SNIA and the Vice Chair of the SNIA End User Council (EUC). As a key volunteer contributor to the SNIA EUC efforts, Terry has developed the highly successful Hands-on Lab Program that has been offered at Storage Networking World Conferences over the past 4 years. He has also been instrumental in the development of StorTOC web site that brings storage end user together as a profession community working to solve real world problems. Additionally, Terry facilitates several collaboration efforts where end users work with industry experts within the SNIA to develop best practices that result in positive impact to IT shops globally.
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Ahmad Zamer, Senior Product Manager, New Technology Protocols, Brocade
Ahmad Zamer is a high tech veteran with more than 20 years of global computer storage and networking industry experience. He managed Philips computer business in the Middle East and most recently, while at Intel, he led the introduction of iSCSI to the marketplace and drove market adoption along with industry leaders. He is a patent holder and an author with more than 45 published articles to his credit.
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Gary Zasman, WW Practice Director Databases and Business Applications, NetApp
Gary Zasman is the Chair of the Long Term Archive and Compliance Initiative as well as functioning as a WW Practice Director for Databases and Business Applications at Network Appliance. Gary Zasman is responsible for managing and developing the compan's WW practice for business applications and databases. Mr. Zasman brings 23 years of information technology solution experience to his position. Before joining Network Appliance Inc. in January 2006, Mr. Zasman developed ILM solutions and consulting practices at Accenture (Massachusetts) and StorageTek (Colorado). Prior to that he spent seven years at EMC Corporation, beginning as the manager of Professional Services in South Africa, then moving to the United States in where he became worldwide Director of Technology and Business Planning for networked storage solutions. In 2001, a team that Mr. Zasman worked with over a six-year period was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian Award, for developing a digital archive and associated processes to house and manage hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data and associated metadata for historical preservation. He began his career in South Africa as a systems engineer for IBM before moving on to positions in engineering, consulting and management with industry leading technology and consulting companies. He resides in Lafayette, Colorado with his wife, Noleen, and two daughters, Donna and Bryony.
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Dave Zenz, Strategist, Dell
Dave Zenz serves as a Storage Strategist at Dell, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for driving Dell's systems management for storage strategy. In addition, he has a responsibility for architecting the Dell PowerVault Modular Disk storage arrays.
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